Progress report: Business Highway 51/Interstate 39 in Rothschild

10:32 PM,
Jul. 31, 2013

Cars drive along Business Highway 51 in the village of Rothschild.

Written by

Katie Hoffman
Daily Herald Media

Wisconsin residents are no strangers to summertime construction, and Rothschild officials and business owners are desperate for one phase of a project on Business Highway 51 and Interstate 39 to be complete.

Shannon Riley, project development supervisor for the Wisconsin Department of Transportation, said the $12.2 million project, which started construction last year, will be completed next spring. The bulk of the work will be done by late November, with pavement coatings to be finished in the spring.

"We had a challenging spring with the weather, but everything is on schedule," he ...